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- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Working PapersThe Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract This paper analyzes the rise of business and economic forecasting agencies in the United...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
cross-sectional and pooled data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for quinquenial censuses conducted between 1982 and 2002 support the key predictions of the model. We find that advertising agency...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
but is unlikely to be able to substitute weak business environment conditions. The second section then deploys a wide range of regional performance data collected for the European Competitiveness Index and the European Cluster...
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Anna Secino
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
structure of financial assets and non-fundamental risk. An asset is fragile if its owners collectively have to buy or sell. Such assets are susceptible to non-fundamental price movements. An asset can be fragile because of concentrated...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
workout. Would Euro zone agencies and lawmakers, acting on behalf of lending banks, have to take drastic action to force Greece's government to impose new laws and collect the taxes? This would be a blow to...
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by Jim Heskett
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
fared financially as a result of the event, stats from the year 2000 are encouraging. Forty percent of the women entrepreneurs in last year's New England forum collectively raised $100 million in equity capital. According to Andrea...
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
a collection of interesting articles across the history of the paper. There were already a few publications on more specific subjects: For example, Floyd Norris, a well-respected columnist at the Times, edited a book on the history of...
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- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
inversions are often not greeted with a positive price reaction. In short, the view that tax avoidance is simply a net transfer of value from the state to shareholders is complicated by the agency problem between shareholders and...
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by Ann Cullen
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
group behavior or evolutionary processes and can uniquely reveal non-linear dynamics and emergence—the process whereby local interactions aggregate into often surprising collective phenomena, such as spatial segregation and relational...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
frictions. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51088 forthcoming The Accounting Review Institutional Ownership and Corporate Tax Avoidance: New Evidence By: Khan, Mozaffar N., Suraj Srinivasan, and Liang Tan Abstract—We provide new evidence...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
they are at the mercy of big companies. Labor Markets. In spite of emerging markets' large populations, multinationals have trouble recruiting managers and other skilled workers because the quality of talent is hard to ascertain. There are relatively few search firms...
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- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
the absence of good news. This commitment provides the latter a greater incentive to collect information than a monitor holding the aggregate claim would have. Thus debt and equity are shown to be complementary instruments in firm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
interconnections to form within existing systems—and there seems to be a rising frequency of such events. Since we inhabit an increasingly tightly interconnected global collection of such systems, finding ways to reduce and to manage...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
four billion potential customers was short-sighted, because even if their individual incomes are tiny, collectively they represent a massive business opportunity. But the myopia of the past toward this market is starting to correct...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced risk taking. The changes are isolated to indebted firms (where the legal change applied). These reductions in agency costs were followed...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
health care has led her to study nurses, who, as direct care providers, are at the center of the web of supply chains of equipment, supplies, medications, and even physicians. Singer received a grant from the Agency for Healthcare...
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by Paul Guttry
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency considerations. Studies centered on the May 2003 dividend tax cut confirm that differences in the taxation of dividends and capital gains have only a second-order impact on setting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
United States. In recent years, however, this centralized approach to the collection and analysis of adverse events through doctor-initiated case reports has been superseded by innovative, though episodic, pharmacoepidemiological studies...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
are particularly interested in understanding how, if at all, the firm should go about effecting meaningful word-of-mouth (WOM). To tackle this problem, we collect data from two sources: 1) We implemented a large-scale field test in which...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
part of their research, they have interviewed more than fifty people in two cities and collected data on some 1,000 communities since the late 1980s. They observe that organizations in different cities seem to have different foci when it...
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by Sean Silverthorne